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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 17, 2024

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Near the end of the second-best-known Richard Yates novel, The Easter Parade. Yates is a very fluid, readable writer and I think he improved in this respect after Revolutionary Road.

Comments:

  • People familiar with TRP would recognize so many things in this novel. If you read this, think about concepts like "holding frame," "alpha widows" etc. It's fascinating.
  • Some of the scenes with the mother evoke a positively Ballardian horror.